Best of luck to the Saints’ girls cross country team (Keira Friedrich, Lucia Penner, Brielle Friedrich, Robin Hibscher, Grace Penner, Kady Thoms, Addison Maxfield, Kendra Johnson, and Marie Wills) and SPHS senior Alex Bur in Saturday’s Minnesota Class AA State Cross Country Meet at the U of MN Golf Course in Falcon Heights.
The Class AA girls meet is set for 10 a.m. that day while the boys AA race begins at 10:45 a.m. with the awards ceremony at approximately 11:15 a.m. Tickets for the state meet are only available online for $13 for adults and $8 for students at https://www.mshsl.org/tickets.
St. Peter’s varsity girls cross country team earned a trip to the Minnesota State Class AAA Girls Cross Country Meet by winning Section 2AA meet on October 24th at Benson Park in upper North Mankato. It marks the first trip to state for the Saints girls as a team since the program qualified in back to back years in 1996 and 1997.
St. Peter placed 13th overall out of 16 teams both years. Attached below are two team photos from the SPHS Yearbooks of those two state tournament teams!
This will be the third state tournament trip in a row for the Saints' Keira Friedrich while Lucia Penner is heading to state for the second time in row after qualifying a year ago. Alex Bur will also be making a repeat trip to state!
For more details on the MN State Cross Country meet please see the following link → https://www.mshsl.org/sports-and-activities/cross-country-running-girls
MN Class AA State Cross Country Meet info
October 31, 2024